Quality of Congressional Websites Called "Disappointing"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 27, 2007 - 1:15pm.

Washington - A new report card on congressional web sites from the Washington-based Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) finds their overall quality "disappointing," with over a third of the sites earning a substandard or failing grade.

"Given the increasing number of Americans using the Internet to get information from or communicate with their government, it is disappointing that the most common grade earned was a D," said Beverly Bell, executive director of CMF, a non-profit organization that promotes a more effective Congress.

"Congress has just not kept up with the demands of an increasingly Internet-savvy public."

Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the report evaluated 615 congressional sites based on how well they incorporated audience, content, usability, interactivity and innovation.

Eighty-five, or 13.8%, earned a grade of "A." Only Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) have received awards for their sites in all three of the organization's reports, dating to 2002.

The complete report is available at the link below.

 

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